Wednesday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Anne Queffelec in Scarlatti piano sonatas; Artist of the Week: violinist David Oistrakh; Rob's Essential Choice: Sibelius: Symphony No 6.
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Anne Queff茅lec playing Scarlatti Sonatas. WARNER APEX 0927 44353 2
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist, David Oistrakh.
10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest is Miranda Krestovnikoff. She studied zoology at Bristol University, and from 1998 has appeared in very popular TV programmes on wildlife conservation and the environment, including The One Show, Coast and Countryfile. A keen musician, she spends a lot of her spare time making music. She plays the flute, bassoon, piano and recorders, and also sings. She currently plays with the New Bristol Sinfonia, and in 1994 she formed her own a cappella choir, Partsong, which she directed for eight years.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Sibelius: Symphony no 6
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SM2K47622.
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Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 6
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George Frideric Handel
Prelude 鈥� The Alchymist
Performers: The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (director)
- L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE 455 709 2.
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9.02 [00鈥�02鈥漖: ROB'S ESSENTIAL CD OF THE WEEK
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in D major, L.465 K.96
Performers: Anne Queff茅lec (piano)
- APEX 0927 44353 2.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Overture: Der Freisch眉tz
Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
- EMI CDM 769 572 2.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in F major, RV 293 'Autumn'
Performers: Enrico Onofri (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (director)
- TELDEC 4509 908502.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture 'The Ruins of Athens' Op. 113
Performers: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor)
- PHILIPS 438706 2.
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9.39 [00鈥�39鈥漖: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH
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Tchaikovsky trans. Bezekirsky
Valse-scherzo Op. 34
Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano)
- EMI 562 914 2.
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Today鈥檚 Brainteaser Answers
The Year in Question
Performers: Details of the music related to today鈥檚 brainteaser will appear at the bottom this page at 12pm.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Grande valse brillante op 18
Performers: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
- DECCA 414 600 2.
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9.53 [00鈥�53鈥漖: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 99
Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), New York Philharmonic, Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor)
- SONY MHK 63327 聽.
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10.30 [01鈥�30鈥漖: Miranda Krestovnikoff's Choices
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Ian Stephens
The Ecchoing Green
Performers: The Elysian Singers of London, Sam Laughton (conductor)
- www.elysiansingers.com.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite in D minor, BWV 1008
Performers: Yo Yo Ma (cello)
- SONY CLASSICAL S2K63203.
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11.00 [02鈥�00鈥漖: Rob's Essential Choice
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Aaron Copland
Quiet City
Performers: Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)
- DECCA 448 261 2.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Trio No. 3 in E major, K.542
Performers: Trio Fontenay
- TELDEC 2292 46439 2.
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Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 6
Performers: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
- SONY CLASSICAL SM2K47622.
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